When Gen. William T. Sherman successfully completed his "March to the Sea" 150 years ago this month, he sent President Abraham Lincoln a Christmas greeting like no other. "I beg to present you as a Christmas gift the City of Savannah, with one hundred and fifty guns and plenty of ammunition, also twenty-five thousand bales of cotton," the Union commander telegraphed his commander-in-chief shortly after the Atlantic Coast city fell on Dec. 21, 1864. It was a dramatic ending to one of the most daring maneuvers during the Civil War. Even the president confessed that he had been "anxious, if not fearful," about Sherman's decision to march 300 miles...

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